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Wow.

I just got my first shock.

Wow.

Contrary to popular opinion, it didn't make my hair stand on end, heh.

Callie was in a playful mood, and I chased her up and down the stairs a coupla times and then she hid and I sat down downstairs and played with the computer.

I was there about two minutes and ***BANG***!

It took me a minute to figger out what had happened.

And it wasn't nearly as bad as I had heard, but it still wasn't pleasant by any means.

Interesting, to say the least.

I'm anxious to see the EKG that it saved... Thor constantly monitors and then saves PVC runs, and they can be read and printed out.

21:22...
Didn't do much today around here... had some more pot roast for a late lunch... it turned out excellent, in spite of me not knowing what I was doing. Crock pots are wonderful!

Be able to cook more than eggs and steaks makes me feel more self-sufficient... especially when I can cook a dish that will last four or five days.

My crock pot has a removable cooking pot, so I can just stick it in the fridge.

Both Mom and Karen would wait until food was cooled down somewhat before putting it in the fridge, but I've always kinda questioned that... but neither of them made me sick by eating that food, so that works.

But to me, the danger point really happens as the food cools down to a temp that lets bacteria to grow... so one would want to reduce that period as much as possible, right?

So I put it in the fridge hot... and so far, I haven't gotten sick.

Herman and I had dinner tonight at The Blind Tiger, but I was also having dinner with Lana, so I just had some onion rings... which were very good... very greasy and tasty.

Then I went to Lanas' and we talked for a while before I started working on her computer again... did a disk check, and many sectors were un-readable, including the MBR... bad, bad news.

I thought about doing a re-format, but that's never worked for me... this is a compaq, 2005 or so, with a 150GB HD, and that was about the time that they were using disks by... somebody, I can't remember... that was having problems with bad drives.

I was going to get her a new drive, but I think that I'll just give her an older 80GB drive that I have... she's got maybe 20GB used on her drive, and her usage is such that she probably doesn't need more than 80.

And I got a kiss when I left, rather early since I had to get my pills taken; I want to start to get better on the timing... and never get shocked again.

I was about four hours late taking the pills this morning, and that might have had something to do with the shocking incident.

I need to get my legs working right again... for so many reasons!

I'm getting out of shape, not losing weight... I can't do that without the ability to walk, dammit.

I don't like pain, and I want to be able to avoid it as much as I can.